a texas senator will be in iowa in october 2013 because he either wants to run for president or because he wants people to think he wants to run for president. i'm randomly going to iowa is how politicians from iowa say i'm running for president unless audio evidence of what seems like pretty much flat out corruption of the whole iowa process makes people think twice about that. audio evidence. next. >>> running for president means starting in iowa, right? iowa's first. their caucuses have been first in the nation for 40 years now. so starting to run for president means starting in iowa, which means first competing in the ames, iowa, straw poll, which is a scam. it is a total scam, a fake wigged pay for votes, not a real contest pretending to be a contest. the iowa straw poll costs money to vote. it costs $30 to cast a ballot. some buy those ballots for people with the understanding that those people will then vote for them and, tah-dah, it's actual vote buying in america in the 21st century. democracy, faked. this is the seriousness with which iowa takes its responsibility of being fir